“The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.”
Harry Levin
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
W. M. Lewis
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar Wilde
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
Erma Bombeck
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Benjamin Franklin
